I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time.
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion there’s two of us LOL
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
I'm like "write a script!" If I want to hear people shooting the shit, I'll join a Teams call. Otherwise, I'll just read the transcript that's been "edited for clarity" thanks.
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@gwynnion there’s two of us LOL
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion I just want nerdy talk radio that isn't fascists and/or AI shills who don't realise they're fascist yet.
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I'm like "write a script!" If I want to hear people shooting the shit, I'll join a Teams call. Otherwise, I'll just read the transcript that's been "edited for clarity" thanks.
@jrdepriest
I had a couple I listened to, but that whole "three guys sitting in their mom's unfinished basement" vibe was so common.The occasional scripted one I found were still 45+ minute long and still really shallow on a subject or just uninformed opinion. No time for that in my life.
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion this reminds me of when I realized as a teenager pro wrestling is just a soap opera aimed at dudes.
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion you know what else "pods" refers to. Dolphins. Think about it!
Seriously, though, they're not all bad. Fish(*) of the sea swim together and shit.
(*yeah, I know that dolphins aren't fish...)
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion credit where it's due to podcasts which are just national broadcasters making online archives of their programmes and saying "come and get it nerds"
The archetypal podcast is, indeed, bad though. Three American men laughing at their own jokes, forever.
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
@gwynnion luckily there are now podcasts for any kind of interest. of course any kind of nerd as well
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@gwynnion there’s two of us LOL
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I remember when I was first introduced to the concept of podcasts and heard one for the first time. I think it was tech talk or some thing.
I was like, "Is this just talk radio for nerds?"
And they kinda sighed and rolled their eyes at me, "the stupid girl."
And I was like, "It's talk radio for nerds."
And I've hated it ever since, basically.
It’s fascinating to me how the whole thing developed. When the iPod launched, most music players (and mobile phones) had an FM radio. FM radios are so cheap to make and tiny that you may as well put them in anything that already has headphones (the headphone cable works nicely as an antenna).
But Steve Jobs hated FM Radio. So the iPod didn’t have one. And, it turned out, a lot of people liked listening to the radio. Someone came up with the idea of sharing a bunch of MP3s via an RSS feed so you could download the latest episodes of a radio show to your iPod when you plugged it into your computer.
So now you have a way of publishing radio shows to iPods with basically no barrier to entry. Something that is to radio what a web page is to a magazine article: cheaper to produce, no scarcity of space. Some will be from people who are fascinating experts on a thing so few people care about that no mainstream publication would devote scarce space to them. Others are random ramblings.
Then the iPod’s entire market slowly died as mobile phones evolved the same functionality. Now most things that play Podcasts are not iPods and have a network available when they are playing them, but the legacy remains.
It’s as if we’d built the web assuming a model of log on, download a bunch of pages for offline reading, and then log off, and this model had persisted to today.
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